Walk Alone

After upgrading to WP 2.1, I got three illegal offset type errors and an undefined constant error. The second type was easily fixed - missing single quotes. For the first type, I first thought of typecasting the array keys in the necessary lines; but then, just for the heck of it, decided to do the upgrade the orthodox way.

The way I usually carry out an upgrade is to do it on localhost and then upload the files and the WP SQL export. After running into problems this time, I followed the official way of uploading the new files and then running the upgrade process on the hosting server. Till now, it is working - no errors. I’d better close the ticket I opened on WP support for this fault.

The final problem I get is “The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading”. I will have to figure it out with the host.

Overall, it was an interesting week getting my site transferred.

And I got to know just when I was uploading WP 2.0.7 to my new host too!

So here it is - after close on to eight months of the disappearing act, this blog is up - on a new host with the latest and greatest version of WordPress ever. The theme’’s new too (yeah, yeah - tell me how I”m artistically impaired - but I like this theme). Well, the favicon and header image are my own stuff, so maybe you are entitled to your opinions.

Some finishing stuff is left - so pardon any quirks for a week or so. Do comment - I would like to see this working at 100 percent!

I have shifted to RVBHUTE.ORG. The blog has moved to blog.rvbhute.org; though if you are reading this, you already know it.

A big thanks to Thite for getting me the domain. And walking me through the process of getting the domain hosted.

Lots of links to update, both internal and external. Plus when I move to a different host sometime in the future, it would be another round of setting up the domain…

Nothing beats having your own domain. Take my word for it.

Don’t forget to update your links!

There’s been some noise lately over the strict guard over my comment form. I do have to say no one says I shut your mouths but someone has expressed annoyance over the name/email/captcha thing. Beg your pardon? Yes, the person is not ready to fill in the email even when assured it won’t be displayed. Too bothersome, is the reply. What? Am I going to track you down and do something bad? If I give you free reign over what you can say, surely I need to know who “you” are, don’t I? The deal’s not that bad, is it?

Among other things, I’ve cleaned up the previous entries - removing cross-category posting, generating permalinks - that sort of stuff. And I’ve started working on the static pages. To see what I’m talking about, see the ‘About’ page, from the menubar at the top or from the sidebar.

And I have a friendly surprise for IE visitors.

Decided to overhaul the blog template after changing the blog name and description. Downloaded seven templates from Alex King’s Theme Browser; selected the one you are seeing now - equiX. Certainly gives a spacious feel to the page.

The first thing to do, of course, was to systematically hack into the template. I removed the cursors specified in the style.css file. Then edited the sidebar, search form, header, footer and index.php. I pushed the search form into the header image. For that, I simply exchanged the two motifs - GIMP came in handy here - and made space for the search form. Also moved the description from the homelink’s title to outside the link. I decided to exploit WP’s get_calendar() function. equiX didn’t have the necessary CSS classes. So added them by looking into the calendar outputs of other WP blogs . Oh, and I had to fix the smileys too - they had an overdose of Red Bull
As a parting touch, I added Owen Wrinkler’s Countdown plugin. Currently it holds the 2006 F1 calendar. Will add more stuff to as time goes by.